In 2019, the number of mass murders in the United States reached record levels compared to previous years.
This information was voiced by the AP, citing statistics gathered by USA Today newspaper and the North-Eastern University in Boston, reports TASS.
Mass killings in the US are the occasions when the hands of the attackers killed four or more people. In 2019 were 41 cases of these mass killings. In 33 cases, death was associated with the shooting.
as a result of such attacks in 2019 in the United States killed 211 people.
Similar statistics are from 2004, but archival documents indicate that data for that year exceed the figures for the number of mass murders from the 70-ies of XX century.